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Henrik Iversen mentions the film + Dom DeLuise performs dance from the film + clip shown

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Black Bart and group sing "I Get No Kick from Champagne," and the ending scene involving western actors running out of the studio gates.

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Dom DeLuise mentions that his wife Carol Arthur is in Mel Brooks' upcoming movie, with the working title "Black Bart"

Robyn Hilton talks about her role in the movie, and Richard Pryor comments briefly on co-writing the script

Referenced during the Carnac the Magnificent sketch.

title & star Mel Brooks on Valley Guild marquee

After Lyle picks up Major Burns and swings him around, Hawkeye chastises him, to which he replies, "Lyle bad. Do bad things," in the style of Mongo. Alex Karras played both characters.

During the pie fight at the Warner Brothers commisary, a picture of Edward G. Robinson dressed as Rico can be glimpsed very briefly on the back wall.

"I Get a Kick Out of You"

Robert Ridgely (Boris the hangman) does a spot-on voice imitation of Charles Laughton's Quasimodo.

Subtitled with the movie's name on the poster. "Never give a *saga* an even break."

During the hangings, Harvey Korman says of a hangee in a wheelchair (representing Lionel Barrymore of the Gillespie films) "ah yes, the Dr. Gillespie killings," in reference to the "death" of the series.

A silent film movie poster in the movie mogul's studio office was for a western starring Philip Hart and it had the word ''blazing'' in the title.

Film's title is a takeoff on the mainstream film's title from a couple of years earlier.

Rip Taylor has a pair of burnt underpants, claiming it's from the film.

Video's title is a takeoff on the mainstream film's title.

Dwight holds himself hostage, like Bart does in this movie.

The scene between Bart and Lilly in Blazing Saddles is a spoof of the scene between Gary Cooper and Marlene Dietrich's characters in Morocco.

When Boris the executioner attempts to hang a man who's sitting in a wheelchair, Hedley Lamarr refers to it as "the Dr. Gillespie case." At MGM in the late 1930's and early 1940's, they made a series of movies in which Lew Ayres played Dr. Kildare and his boss Dr. Gillespie was played by Lionel Barrymore. The character used a wheelchair because Barrymore's chronic arthritis had advanced so much the actor needed one in real life.

The movie's theme is spoofed, and the stagecoach end chase, when Bart tells of when his family met the Indians.